About Us

Newsocracy | The Freedom to Tell Your Story

Newsocracy LLC is a social media news service. Tell us the kinds of stories you would like to see and we will cover them in an in-depth way that is seldom seen in traditional media. Our news stories focus on the things we hope you find interesting and are available via social media sites like:

So get to work. Give us an idea. Something you know something about or want to know more about. Tell us if you know people we should talk to or who have some special knowledge about the topic. Email us with suggestions at newsocracy@yahoo.comor call 601.706.9008. We are based in Mississippi, but we know how to drive and occasionally we even fly. So don't let geography limit your ideas.

Our Other Services

Often a company or other organization will contact Newsocracy because they want a longer form video piece that tells their story in a more comprehensive manner than traditional TV news allows. They might use the story in a variety of ways: on their website and/or social media pages, as part of a media relations campaign or as an intro at events or public meetings.

In these cases, after discussion about the story’s goal, Newsocracy produces a journalistically sound story, interviewing a variety of people and shooting video that illustrates a particular topic or service a client wishes to provide more information about. The client may use the story in any way they desire. The story may also appear on Newsocracy’s 14 social media sites.

Call us at 601.706.9008 or e-mail us at newsocracy@yahoo.com for more information about the paid services we provide.

Experience

Jim Albritton is the executive producer at Newsocracy LLC, a social media news service based in Mississippi. He has 20 years experience in television news and media relations, specializing in crisis communications. He also has an extensive background in public relations and special events.

Albritton earned his Bachelor of Science degree in radio, television and film with an emphasis in broadcast journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. He served as a news intern at the Voice of America and was a freelance producer during the first gulf war, both in Washington, DC. In Mississippi, he produced Jackson’s highest-rated 5 p.m. newscast at CBS affiliate WJTV 12.

He has extensive media and public relations experience—primarily in health care—at the largest hospitals in Mississippi. He was the media coordinator at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMC), the marketing communications manager at Forrest General Hospital and the public and media relations director at Methodist Rehabilitation Center (MRC).

Albritton's crisis communications experience includes serving as UMC spokesman following separate automobile accidents involving Mississippi’s Governor and Lt. Governor. At UMC he generated more than 400 television news stories about the hospital and its programs each year, produced local segments of the Children’s Miracle Network Telethon and helped organize numerous fundraisers and special events for the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children, including the Mal's St. Paddy's Parade and Festival.

He’s pitched or placed stories promoting the institutions he has worked for in a wide variety of television broadcasts or print publications, including The Today Show, CBS This Morning, The CBS Evening News, Dateline NBC, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, Reuters, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, Newsday, the Dallas Morning News, the Boston Globe and the Miami Herald to name a few. Albritton also garnered national media coverage for a team of Methodist Rehabilitation Center researchers who were the first in the world to link West Nile virus with a polio-like from of paralysis.

At Methodist, he designed two safety-related mascots and created an injury prevention program that generated media coverage of safety issues. The program reached more than 30,000 children in schools statewide.

Albritton has served on many boards and assisted numerous nonprofit organizations and been a member of various professional organizations. He also was the first participant in the Yale University School of Medicine’s Professional Exchange Program for media relations professionals.

Today, he produces video news stories for a variety of nonprofit organizations and companies and is a media relations consultant, offering media coaching, crisis communications and other services.